The Laurel Health Cookery: A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

well buttered molds, cover and steam 3-4 hours. Serve with orange syrup sauce or with hard sauce flavored with vanilla and oil of orange, or with egg cream sauce. ½ to 1 cup of brown sugar and 1 or 2 tablespoons lemon juice may be used in the pudding. The quantity of liquid will vary with the conditions, but a moderately soft batter is required. =★ Steamed Whole Wheat Pudding= 1 cup milk 1 cup molasses 2 cups whole wheat flour 1 cup raisins or currants ½ cup oil salt Mix all ingredients but flour, agitate liquid with batter whip until full of bubbles, sprinkle flour in slowly with the left hand, keeping up the agitating motion with the right. When the flour is all in and the batter foamy, put into well oiled mold, let stand in a cold place ½ hour or longer, then set in steamer and steam 3 or 4 hrs. Serve hot with creamy, foamy, hard or other sauce. 2¼ cups of bread flour may be used. =Tapioca Puddings--Granular Tapioca= Any of the granular preparations--minute tapioca, cassava, manioc or manioca may be used. 5 tablespns. tapioca 1 cup warm water soak 10-30 m. _Syrup_-- ¾-1 cup sugar ½ teaspn. salt 3 cups water Stir together until dissolved. =Apple=--Prepare syrup in flat bottomed granite or porcelain lined pan. When boiling, drop in, inside down, quarters of 6 medium sized, juicy apples. Cook until nearly tender, add soaked tapioca, pressing it down into the syrup, cover dish and simmer slowly until tapioca is transparent, 5-15 m. Serve warm (not hot) or cold, plain or with orange egg cream or custard sauce if cold; or orange or cocoanut flavored hard sauce if warm; or with nut or whipped dairy cream. =Peach=--Make the same as Apple Tapioca, using twice as many peaches, in halves. =Strawberry, Raspberry and Other Berries=--Cook soaked tapioca in the syrup and pour over the berries; mix carefully and pour into a pudding or fancy dish. Serve cold. A fluff of the fruit may be used for the sauce, if any. =Stewed or Canned Fruit=--Cook soaked